September 2015

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Using Scrivener: Three plus points #1: Everything is in one place. (Read Here)   #2: I feel like I am in control. Being in control is essential for those of us proud to 'suffer' from  OCD. I need to see my novel on lots of levels: from the top down, from the bottom up, from each character's point of view, and from the reader's perspective too. The binder panel sits to the left of my...

Using Scrivener: Three plus points Whenever I'm asked to comment on anything - be it a piece of writing, the weather, whatever - I always try to come up with plus points first, preferably three of them. It's an attitude of mind. My glass is always at least half full! Using Scrivener, there are so many plus points, the difficulty is in choosing just three! #1: Everything is in one place. I love NANO....

For years, I've had the Scrivener software on my computer, but not found time to use it until now. Why not? On first sight, this sophisticated package looked so complicated, even IT-savvy me was put off. Writer friends were raving about how brilliant Scrivener was, how it transformed their writing, but I wasn't listening. Why now? Fate intervened. A friend sent me a link to a video demo. Tempted to watch, I was amazed by Scrivener's power...